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| Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. | |
| Posted by: kieran 05:53 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
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| re: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. | |
| Posted by: student_rush 08:53 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. - kieran 05:53 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
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| In my completely biased opinion (she has been kind to my work in the past), Maya is definitely one of the sharper critics currently working and I'm happy to see her so firmly on display at The Times. | |
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| re: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 07:21 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. - kieran 05:53 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
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| As it happens, she wrote the piece I posted just below yours with the title “How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic.” | |
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| re: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 09:25 am EST 02/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. - Unhookthestars 07:21 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
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| Phillips is a very good writer but when she revealed her bias toward older musicals I cringed. Does she think Rent is the gold standard to measure other musicals against? | |
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| re: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 10:40 am EST 02/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Maya Phillips wins the George Jean Nathan award. - lowwriter 09:25 am EST 02/17/22 | |
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| Is this the quote from her NYTimes piece on Larson that you believe reveals her bias against older musicals? “Before Larson, I never listened to show tunes; in the past few weeks, I’ve not only listened to the new movie’s soundtrack but also the scores of “Company” and “Six.” Before Larson, I enjoyed musical theater but underestimated its depth; I now attend musicals with an open mind and, as hopelessly saccharine as it may seem, with an open heart.” If so, I didn’t interpret it that way. My take is because “Rent” was her entry point into musical theater, it holds a special place in her heart as first loves often do. But I believe she’s very much aware that “Rent” (both the stage and film incarnations) is flawed. In another NYTimes piece called “Why ‘Rent,’ the Movie, Was My Gateway Musical,” she writes that “the fact remained, as many have noted, that he glamorized a community of people facing a virus that was far from romantic,” linking to a opinion piece offering such a critique. |
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